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Answer for the clue "A woman adventurer ", 11 letters:
adventuress

Word definitions for adventuress in dictionaries

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The Adventuress sailing dinghy class was designed by Ian Proctor and built by Anglo Marine of Essex . It is no longer in production. It is not known how many were built or how many survive today, although the secondhand market occasionally sees an Adventuress ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a woman adventurer

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Adventuress \Ad*ven"tur*ess\, n. A female adventurer; a woman who tries to gain position by equivocal means.

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A female adventurer; a woman who seeks adventure. 2 A woman of doubtful reputation or suspected character who pursues personal advancement, especially by sexual means; a demirep.

Usage examples of adventuress.

This is a common way for adventuresses to look upon their daughters, and Therese was an adventuress in the widest acceptation of the term.

When my hateful guests were gone, I began to reflect, and came to the conclusion that this young adventuress had determined to plunder me without giving me anything in return.

The excellent fellow, seeing all the women working busily for Henriette, was highly pleased at having procured such a good position for his young adventuress, and I crowned his happiness by telling him that I was indebted to him for my felicity.

Be good enough to tell him that, although known to no one and knowing no one, I am not an adventuress, and therefore I must decline the honour of his visits.

England is your old friend--that bold adventuress, that knightess errant--the widow Torrebianca.

Rigby and Peller for the establishment, with Agent Provocateur of Soho and Boisvert of Neal Street for the more adventurous adventuress.

Had Rosel lived, Sibyl Sue Blue would have become a familiar serial adventuress in this genre.

They entered a sprawling saloon called the Bold Adventuress through batwing doors featuring bas relief designs of buxom women.

Bomback talked to the adventuress, Zaira sat on my knee, and Crevecoeur ate and drank, laughed in season and out of season, and walked up and down.

She appeared one winter in apartments she had taken in the Champs Elysees, that quarter for adventurers and adventuresses, and opened her drawing-room to the first comer or to any one that turned up.

Samoris is the type of these adventuresses, elegant, mature and still beautiful.

It was probable, Alethia considered, that Robert came into the last category, in which case she was certain to enjoy the companionship of one or two excellent women, and might possibly catch glimpses of undesirable adventuresses or come face to face with reckless admiration-seeking married women.

The excellent fellow, seeing all the women working busily for Henriette, was highly pleased at having procured such a good position for his young adventuress, and I crowned his happiness by telling him that I was indebted to him for my felicity.

He felt ashamed at having treated such a woman as an adventuress, for he knew that what he now saw was not an illusion.

In those days before her marriage, when her mother was living, and when they wandered about Europe, dangerously near to the reputation of adventuresses, the girl had her dream of chateaux and castles and splendor.